Improvement in broom-machines



UNITED STATES PATENT: QFFIOE.

ALPHONSO WALRATH, OF FORT PLAIN, AND EDWARD D. BRONSON, OF

' AMSTERDAM, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN BROOM-MACHINES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 184,935, dated November 28, 1876; application filed September 9,1876.

The nature of this invention consists in the mode of giving proper rotary motion to the mandrel or broom-handle holder during the winding of the corn on it, and of stopping the same when desired, by the means substantially as hereinafter more fully described.

In the accompanying drawing, Figure 1 is a cross-section of the improved part of the machine, takenlongitudinally through the center of the mandrel. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the improved part of the machine.

Fig. 3 is a plan thereof; and Fig. 4 is a perspective view of the clutches.

A represents the frame of the machine. B is'the hollow mandrel for holding the broomhandle when the corn is being wound on it. 0 is a clutch on the mandrel B, having on its face teeth (as seen in Fig. 4) for clutching or interlocking with corresponding teeth on the adjacent side of the pulley D. D is a loose pulley on the mandrel B, having on the side next the clutch O teeth similar to those on the face of O. V

The clutch (l is made fast to the mandrel B, but the pulley D is loose, and O is pressed against D and made to interlock with it by means of the lever E, (one arm of which runs in a groove around the hub of D,) through the treadle F, and they are made to separate and to keep apart by the spring Gr pressing against the leverE when there is no pressure on F.

H is the driving-pulley, with its shaft H, and motion is given to the mandrel B by and there may be one or more other series of clutches, pulleys, levers treadles, and springs, all similar exceptin the diameters of the driving or driven pulleys.

The mode. of operation is as follows: The

broom-handle to be wound with corn is placed in the mandrel B, the binding wire or cord is attached to such handle, and the corn placed:

on the handle, all in the usual way. The operator starts the winding by pressing down treadle F with his foot, which will cause the lever E to press the pulley D against the face of the clutch 0, when the teeth on O and D will interlock, and the motion which the pulley D receives from the driving-pulley I is given to the clutch O, and consequently to the mandrel B, so long as the operator keeps his foot pressing on the treadle F. When the winding is complete, or it is desired for any reason to stop the winding, the operator raises his foot from the treadle F, when the spring Gr, pressing outwardly against the inside of the lever, E, throws pulley and clutch out of gear and the mandrel B stops. By pressing the foot on treadle F mandrel B is instantly set in motion again. When it is desired to change the speed of the winding, the operator presses'his foot on treadle F instead of F, when the pulley D will interlock with clutch O, and as the driving-pulley 1 is of less diameter than the driving'pulley I bination with the bands K K, and levers E E, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

ALPHONSO WALRATH. EDWARD D. BRONSON.

Witnesses as to the signature of ALPHONSO WALRATH:

JOHN S. Yos'r, ROBERT J. SANSON.

Witnesses as to the signature of EDWARD D. Beonson: CHARLES J. STRATTON, GEORGE W. BRONSON. 

